GRASS VALLEY NV9640, User Manual

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Configuration
Button Definitions
When a device list appears on the panel, the system lights the ‘up’ button so the operator
can easily return to the page containing the category button.
There are different sets of button types for global suffix pages and for global navigation pages.
See
Global Navigation on page 40.
Button Specification
The button definitions section has several controls:
The controls vary according to the button type.
Button Type A pull-down menu where you may select a button type.
Button Caption Three text boxes in which you can enter three lines of button text up to 8
characters each. SE provides a default for the button caption.
Some buttons do not allow you to enter button text. Category buttons, for
example, use the category mnemonic as the button text.
Button Color A pull-down menu where you can select a button color: amber, blue, green,
grey, purple, red, or yellow:
Each of the 7 defined colors has two brightness levels.
Note : in usage, buttons are dark if their functions are disabled. Buttons are
low tally if they are available. Buttons are high tally when they are active.
(An exception to this is the LCD brightness submenu when the panel is in
menu mode.) Some button types are never high-tally.
Check box “Place this button on all child pages.” When the operator presses a naviga-
tion button, its target page appears on the buttons. Any page can have
Note
Certain button fields contain a colon (:) and number after the data in the field. The
number is the record ID of the object in the NV9000 configuration database. The
record IDs can be ignored but might be of some use when the configurer is searching
for items in the configuration database.